Kaleidoscope of Hope: Saturday Storytime with Miranda Paul

Join us at The Book Stall for a Saturday Storytime featuring award-winning author Miranda Paul and her new book, Kaleidoscope of Hope: How Butterfly Life Cycles Reflect Our World. In a richly layered text, acclaimed author Miranda Paul explores each stage of a butterfly’s life cycle, while providing lessons in care and responsibility and encouraging hope for the future of our planet. Ms. Paul will lead an interactive event for children to examine butterfly wings up-close and provide materials from the “puddling activity” found in the backmatter of the book so kids can help butterflies in their own backyard. This nonfiction picture book is perfect for kids ages 4 to 8. 

Miranda Paul is an award-winning children’s author of more than twenty books for children. Several of her books have been named Junior Library Guild selections and CCBC Choices selections. Her acclaimed work includes One Plastic Bag, Water Is Water, Whose Hands Are These?; Nine Months, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jason Chin; Little Libraries, Big Heroes; Thanku: Poems of Gratitude; and Speak Up. Some of her most notable titles with international acclaim have stemmed from collaborating with activist icons—Isatou Ceesay, Farmer Tantoh Nforba, and Rashida Tlaib. She is an annual faculty member at the Highlights Foundation and a co-founding member of the nonprofit organization We Need Diverse Books. She currently serves on the board of Americans Serving African Children (ASAC). Learn more at mirandapaul.com.